Conception

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’ — read the full passage →

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

She called out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.